Fruit Flies Like a Banana… or Maybe a Bacardi

It turns out that male fruit flies are a lot like men — when their advances are rejected by females, they’ll seek comfort by getting drunk. So say researchers from UC-San Francisco who study reward pathways in the brain and addiction. The results don’t surprise me; I’m just trying to imagine what a fruit fly’s pick-up line sounds like…

What’s a nice gal like you doing in a rotten banana like this?

You have the most beautiful red eyes.

Is that fermented apple cider you’re wearing?

I used to have a shirt where a fly is sitting on a pile of feces at a bar. Next to her is another pile of feces, and a male fly asks her, “Excuse me… is this stool taken?” It was from a lab company that analyzed fecal samples.

And of course…

What do you get when you cross a tsetse fly and a mountain climber?
Nothing. You can’t cross a vector and a scalar.

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The Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks blog is an online extension to the book Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks. The blog contains jokes submitted by readers, new jokes discovered by the author, details about speaking appearances and workshops, and other random bits of information that might be interesting to the strange folks who like math jokes.